A sad day... RIP GT350

[TMSBOSS]

Care to show the “after” photo one more time?

Its the car above his signture. Now a track beast.

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[bonz50]

OP if it makes you feel any better my father in law let his 911 turbo roll out of the garage into his brick mailbox because he didnt set the parking brake well enough cause he didnt want to "yank on it too hard"

sounds like something a porsche owner would say. hehe

 

[BigBro]

Wow that sucks!! My buddy had the same exact incident with his M3. However my GT350 when I bought it wrecked looked like this one but now its back to 100. Hope you get yours back to 100% soon.

 

[RonsterGT]

I was hanging out at my Dads house in the early 2000's, my Dad had just bought a Z4 and I guess came inside to read the manual since it had so many features. A while later he's screaming to see which one of us kids (I was an adult) F'd with his car... He forget to set the parking brake, somehow the car got enough momentum from the semi-flat driveway to roll up a few feet of uphill slope, then a few hundred feet down a hill through scrub oak and into his newly installed fishing pond. He ended up getting a body kit which insurance installed and painted for "free".

That situation always sits in my mind, to the point I will wake up and run downstairs to check my parking brake sometimes, it's happened to me for almost 20 years regardless of which manual car I've owned.

Had a VERY similar experience. I'm scarred for life lol.

 

[johnnytequila]

Sorry that happened to you. That pic makes me cringe

 

[feeny1701]

Well my body shop finally got around to beginning the repair. They are sitting at $35k parts and labor to fix her. It’s all cosmetic damage. The structure is still solid. Who knows how long it’s going to take for them to get the job done. I have no idea how available or not the parts are going to be. I am still planning on selling her once she’s fixed, but that is probably still a couple months away.

One thing I did notice when I looked at it on the lift was how uneven the rear tires are wearing. It’s almost like there’s too much camber on the rear. The insides are much more worn than the outsides of the tread, and the rear tires are definitely at end of use.

Is this common on the GT350s? I have never had the car aligned, so it’s still sitting how it came out of the factory.

 

[95CobraR]

Wow. You centered the tree

 

[Polski]

Well my body shop finally got around to beginning the repair. They are sitting at $35k parts and labor to fix her. It’s all cosmetic damage. The structure is still solid. Who knows how long it’s going to take for them to get the job done. I have no idea how available or not the parts are going to be. I am still planning on selling her once she’s fixed, but that is probably still a couple months away.

One thing I did notice when I looked at it on the lift was how uneven the rear tires are wearing. It’s almost like there’s too much camber on the rear. The insides are much more worn than the outsides of the tread, and the rear tires are definitely at end of use.

Is this common on the GT350s? I have never had the car aligned, so it’s still sitting how it came out of the factory.

All cosmetic damage? Who told you that and why did you believe? lol

 

[Cobra Jet]

The upper inner fender rails and front towers were not damaged at all? Usually the upper rails will buckle from hitting a stationary object.

Has the body shop removed any parts off the front end yet?

 

[Polski]

The upper inner fender rails and front towers were not damaged at all? Usually the upper rails will buckle from hitting a stationary object.

Has the body shop removed any parts off the front end yet?

The frame rails came closer together for sure. Impossible they did not.

 

[kwpony]

Well my body shop finally got around to beginning the repair. They are sitting at $35k parts and labor to fix her. It’s all cosmetic damage. The structure is still solid. Who knows how long it’s going to take for them to get the job done. I have no idea how available or not the parts are going to be. I am still planning on selling her once she’s fixed, but that is probably still a couple months away.

One thing I did notice when I looked at it on the lift was how uneven the rear tires are wearing. It’s almost like there’s too much camber on the rear. The insides are much more worn than the outsides of the tread, and the rear tires are definitely at end of use.

Is this common on the GT350s? I have never had the car aligned, so it’s still sitting how it came out of the factory.

Thanks for sharing your unfortunate experience with us. I'm amazed how some people can not be understanding to a fellow Mustang enthausist. Best of luck selling her after she's repaired.

 

[feeny1701]

All the damage on the front end is in the crumple zone area. The front frame rails definitely bent, but all the bent metal is in front of the repair point on the rails, so the structure is still intact and square. The guy at the body shop actually showed me where the repair lines or cut lines are on the frame rails, and everything that’s damaged is in front of that. When I said cosmetic damage only, that’s just to say there was no unibody or suspension structure damage.

 

[lunatect]

Well my body shop finally got around to beginning the repair. They are sitting at $35k parts and labor to fix her. It’s all cosmetic damage. The structure is still solid. Who knows how long it’s going to take for them to get the job done. I have no idea how available or not the parts are going to be. I am still planning on selling her once she’s fixed, but that is probably still a couple months away.

One thing I did notice when I looked at it on the lift was how uneven the rear tires are wearing. It’s almost like there’s too much camber on the rear. The insides are much more worn than the outsides of the tread, and the rear tires are definitely at end of use.

Is this common on the GT350s? I have never had the car aligned, so it’s still sitting how it came out of the factory.

The stock alignment will cord the inner tread by about 10k miles.

 

[RagmopInKona]

Easy fix. If it wasn't running , the air bags should not have gone off.

 

[baazooka]

I had a similar but opposite brain fart in the parking lot of a home depot, accidentally let the clutch out hard on startup without taking it out of first gear, the E brake kept my car from slamming into the truck in front of me. Lucky nothing happened but a close call does not feel good

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